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Newspaper Page Text9bc 3teuK-ttwicw Cdit 6 The Newt-Review, Rotoburg, On, MONDAY, JULY 1, 1963 Here's How To Please A Newspaper Reader Even Liz Never. Had It So Good Every day, The Newg-Review receives many calls in which the caller would ei ther like something in the newspaper or something left out of the newspaper. Don't misunderstand. Without all these calls, The News-Review would miss a lot of news. The problem is to do the best we can without seeming tyrannical, un just, cold-hearted,, inconsistent, intracta ble, Indecent, disgusting or even "crum my" as one man was prompted to de scribe it. . The other day, the editor of the Coos Bay World was pondering this problem, and he came up with a list of do's and ' don'ta designed to make the average reader happy. Here it is, with items list ed in order of importance: . (1) My name. '(2) A front page article showing how crooked the city government is most of the time. i (3) My wife's name. (4) A feature article showing 25 ways on how to cheat on income tax forms. (5) My kids' names. : (6) A local news item about the affair my neighbor is having. ' (7) A classified ad offering a new home for sale for $4,000. (8) More news about lawbreakers. (9) Less news about lawbreakers. I was picked up last night and I shouldn't have to pay a fine. (10) An editorial condemning high school teachers for being too liberal with "F's." (11) A wedding picture of the groom in stead of the bride when he is more hand some than she is pretty. (12) A sports picture of me when I bowled 183. (13) More advertisement on things that merchants are giving away. (14) A front-page picture of my neigh bor being hauled out of the bar by his wife. (15) A front-page spread about the deudbeat who lives across the street from me who just had his car repossessed. (16) Forget the last one. I just got word from' the finance company that they're coming after mine. (17) More lotters to the editor naming the crooks we have in town. (18) A full page of local news, a page of national news, several pages of sports and comics, one page on divorces and three pages on all the domestic troubles we're having in town. (19) Less stuff about how cute every body else's kids are. My kids are better looking than those you rave about. (20) A complete biographical sketch about the "most important citizen in town," and be sure you spell my name right. A Life Might Be Saved The Refrigeration Service Engineers Society of Oregon deserves credit for its campaign to dismantle discarded refrig erators so youngsters will not make them a death trap. We have had little trouble with the' problem in Douglas County in recent years, but for some reason the number of youngsters suffocating in old refriger ators has begun climbing rapidly in the last year in the United States. Perhaps Douglas County will continue without a child's death on its conscience because an abandoned refrigerator door wasn't taken off. But if just one life is saved because a door was taken off, it will be worth all the effort Douglas Coun ty Chairman Don Koch and his society members make. The Editor's Corner 5y Charles V. Stanton Day's News By , Frank Jenkins Let Freedom Ring In Nation Is Independence Day Theme Our national holiday, July 4, will be obsorved nationwide this year by the ringing of bells. Throughout all of our 60 states it is planned to "Let Freedom Ring" at noon on In dependence Day. The plan, first proposed by the governor of Connecticut, secured immediate endorsement and now is sponsored na tionally by the Independence Hall Association. Robert C. (Bob) Notson, managing editor of The Oregon ian has been named by Gov. Mark Hatfield to arrange the celebration for the State of Oregon. In reporting the appointment Gov. Hatfield issued a proclama Hon that Independence Day be "a day devoted to focusing attention upon our heritage by ringing of belli from public buildings, church es and schools for two minutes at 12:00 noon (local time). I call upon our people to rekindle our dedica tion to our democratic institutions and become more eloquent exam ples of our American Heritage." The ringing of bells might aptly be called a part of our American Heritage. Independence Day Is the anniver sary of tho day on which the Dec- larauon o( independence was adopted by the ConUncntal Con gross July 4, 1770.. Of that event John Adams said "I am apt to believe Uiat it will bo celebrated by succeed ing generaUons as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Al mighty. It ought to be solenv nlied with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illu minations, from one end of this continent to tho other, from this time forward for ever more." It's a good thing John Adams can't see the way wo celebrate July 4 in modern fashion. Our "solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty" seemingly revert to tho pagan days of human sacri fice as acts of appeasement to the gods. We slaughter hundreds of men, women and children on our highways as we observe a "sate and sane Fourth." Only a few o( our older cithens can recall when the Fourth of July 'Jbcmcws-ttcuicw 14 S. t warn SI. Roiatxir. Oragen Tatapnona OSchard Mill r.nHna as wvood clan maitaa May r. ItM. al lha pui ! at Rimevirg, Oft Soa uniiar act e toarch J. lira. Pvblnhfd Oath; ecnt Sunday by NEWSHPVIHV PUBUIHINQ CO. I. V. Iramiar Putlllhtr Th Naot Rtvlaw It a man-bar ft Unlltd Prats tntamallnnil. hr-A t.rwi. Audit Suraau of Cirrulatkm and tha Or toon Namoacar Putllihan Association. National Advartlilng Raprvta rtatlv tl Naspaoar Advertising tcrvlca Co.. Rust wwuia n r-ranciua taut. SUBSCRIPTION RATES latr-ai an Rgsabvn P O. Born I anonlh. SUJi rnentha. llfl.Wi 1 year, tit do y ww in Oregon' i month, ti.ijj aSi '4'4' ' """"Rfc '' I ar : uraoon: i menm, II.ISl was a day of "pomp and parado, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations." We old-timers can recall the ilavs of parades, oratorical masterpiec es, nana concerts, contests, fire crackers, fireworks, burned hands, feet, faces and piles of homemade bandages. Festival Moves Today, however, our celebration of the "great anniversary festival" finds its parades in the procession of vehicles on the way to our beach es, mountains and places of recre ation, or the string of cars speed ing for holiday visits elsewhere. Where we once had death and Injury from fireworks, wo now aro (ar more successful In our slaugh ter. Wo kill and injure thousands more in our highway accidents. Hue. we havo some snorts, most ly automobile races, but no one has tlmo for a true celebration. We're too busy finding ways to amuso ourselves. The ringing of bells will be a par tial return to the original intent. The question Is, how many peo ple will be left at home to hear the bells ringT Mark Criticizes Accident Apathy RAl.EM (UPD-Gov. Mark Hat field has criticized public apathy rnd imllffcrenco to the state's mounting traffic death toll. llatfirui, in a press release, noted thai tho traffic death toll is 30.3 per cent ahead of last year. and said If tho present trend con tinucs more than GOO lives may be lost in traffic acrldents this year. Hatfield announced ho has writ ten to courts hearing traffic cases urging them to require more drivers to appear personally to answer charges of moving traffic offenses. Oregon law requires drivers to appear in court only for major traffic offenses, but courts have the authority to re quire any driver to appear on any charge, he said. The nows today? Thoro's nothing very exciting. Sio lot's talk about tourists. It's reaiiy quuo an Important topic. If wo could induce all tho tnni-. ists who will visit us this summer 10 stay just ONE DAY longer In Oregon, we could add somewhere in tho neighborhood of SIXTY MILLION dollars to our state's economy. We could use the money. This year's slogan Is WEr.roMF. TO OREGON. The major gateways to Oregon -meaning the 18 hiihwav entrnne. es by which tourists will enter our state have been painted with the green Welcome mnt, which you must have noticed if you have driv en across Oregon's borders with in recent days. In addition, Wel come to Oregon signs and displays aro going up at air. bus and train terminals. All of our major news and ad vertising media havo entered whole heartedly into the project with donated time and snnco. Eight outdoor advertising firms have DONATED 64 billboard snac- cs for tho summer. Dailv and weekly newspapers arc telling of Oregon's attractions. Ninoty radio stations are using daily in their programs the attractive little I n gie WKLUOMK to OREGON that tinkles so pleasingly in the car. Oregon's ten TV stations will soon be in the act. You may ask "What can I do?" You can do a lot. HOW? Well, lust kcop alive to every posslblo opportunity to step up to tourist who looks like he may not know just what to do and whore to go to do it, and in your friendliest and most hospitable manner WELCOME HIM TO ORE GON. Just be courteous and friendly. Make tho visitor to our state feel that you are genuinely delighted because he has come to Oregon to spend his vacation. Just treat our tourist visitors as you would like to be treated when you arc touring elsewhere. That will help immensely. Tourists are people, and people like to feel that they are welcome. Another way to help: Write to your friends. Tell them about Oregon especial ly about lovely Southern Oregon. NOW YOU KNOW By United Press International Martin Van lluren, the eighth president, was the first chief ex ceulive to be born in the United States. All previous seven nresl dents were born in this country when It was still i British colony, according i0 tne World Almanac. -. .:. 1 - I M -1". Seta . 1 sl "T fjf" ' V. i e--a mfmf ' 'i MBMMi pip Was Thresher Crash -ffi Due To Cleanliness? By ROBERT C. RUARK I would not be at all surprised if a passion for cleanliness sank the Thresher, and not, as Admiral Hy man Rickover is quick to deny, an atomic reactor failure. It is en tirely likely that the recent hull changes to accommodate a garbage-disposal unit, plus other struc tural alterations, had somo dis astrous effect on watertight inte grity, and maybe the welders, or somebody running the X-ray in spection, just plain goofed. When they muck around in a boat at those classified depths of descent, the weakest link Is what kills tho crew and loses the ves sel. I have no information about the garbage disposal unit, but from reports It held all the ele ments for tragedy. The disposal unit worked on a torpedo-ejection format: You undog an inside com partment, eject the slops into a sealed area, re-dog the safety fac tor inside, then open a hatch in the boat's outer skin, and fire a salvo of old potato peelings and bread ends into the vast ocean. Pressure Involved No technician am I, but I do know that any escape-hatch factor of any machine air or under water-borne is prone to more fleas than the vastly more compli cated machinery inside. A great many test pilots have died in the testing of machineries which flung pilots out of failing aircraft jet, rocket and otherwise because you are always dealing with tremend ous pressures: In the air, metal- melting speed: in the sea, the enormous push of water against delicate skin of your pigboat. What the investigations will provo I cannot say, because u the boat is on the bottom there isn't going to be much availability of evidence for testing the tragedy and its causes. But at a tremendous cost In lives, the Thresher sinking graphi cally emphasizes Admiral Rick over's ominous warnings, which underlines the necessity of ulti mate in care of all personnel con nected with the construction and operation of theso atom-bcaring- decp - water run - silent sub marine weapons of ours. I had no idea when I wrote the last piece on Rickover a few days before the thresher catastrophe that we would loso a 45-million dollar boat and 129 lives to illustrate his point. but today the point is certainly sharpened. Safety Involvtd Rlckovcr's most pertinent quote tragically apt, was this: "We are constantly being harassed (by the Navy) with attempts to reduce training, to use people we don't think are qualified, or to put pco pie into the program for the short periods of time so they can get nuclear power on their record, be cause this will help their chance for promotion. I cannot permit this in good conscience, because more than the Navy's Interest is involved here. The health and safe ty of the public is Involved, too." From what I read of the Thresh er's death, the Navy (and Rick over) assures that the sea lanes would not be contaminated by the nuclear equipment on the dead boat that the sea bottom Is the safest place for the hot stuff un less certain elements melt. This is as may be, but a fast check on the . recent " Rickover quotes would show that he is wor ried about even slightly slapdash operation: "The nuclear propulsion system is now reaching its most critical stage, particularly in as suring the safe handling of the growing amount of radioactivity produced by the growing nuclear fleets." It would be almost classically tragic if the faulty installation of a garbage-disposal unit or some sort of under water TV gimmick blew up a world. Citations Made I never served on subs in the war, but once I was dragooned into tho supervision of security on the actual phrasing of the cita tions whichA accompanied the. med als, delivered both alive and post humously, to the heroes who ran the boats under the sea. I can still dredge the names of people like Slade Cutter and Mush Morton out of a stale memory, and wonder with horrified pity what Mush and his heroes of the Waiioo thought when the odds ran out and the old boat wasn't going to surface any more. I also made the first civilian run in a schnorkel sub, predecessor of the modern atom-powered boat, and after a week under water I was in some thing approaching a state of shock. Alongside the submarines, in my book of heroes, the astronauts are merely hot-rod kids who'll die quickly if the capsule . flames whereas the pigboat boys know the awful inevitability of their end for hours, maybe days, before they die. It is very lonely down there in that black water, with the bulk heads finally caving and no man to talk you in or pick you up or lend a hand. I hope the Navy heeds Rickover, whom the Navy doesn't like for being a burr under the blanket of service complacency. The atomic submarine program wants the maximum in care, including the checking of garbage-disposal units (Copyright, 1911 by United Faaturo Synd., Inc.) 3n 2)awJ Gone (J3i a . Tk fiem the fika of The Ntwi-Hoviow 4 YEARS AGO July 1, mj Roseburg yesterday won a 7-4 victory over the Sutherlin baseball team, in spite of the fact that for the first soven innings Roseburg failed to show very much pep. Jack Dempsey. "heavyweight champion of the world for a few days, at least, dropped few ounces of perspiration this afternoon while a large crowd, perspiring profuse ly under the rays of a Montana sun, applauded his efforts toward conditioning." Bert Bates, corre sponding for the Roseburg News Review, described Dempsey as "the same vicious tiger who is due to put a certain St. Paul lad to sleep in about the fifth round on July 4th." He is to fight Joe Gibbons. Officers and members of the Roseburg National Guard company returned ovor the weekend from Camp Lewis where they took two weeks of military training. . The contract for the Mill Creek section of the Loon Lake Road was let by the Douglas County Court today to the Northwest Con struction Co. which bid $17,745. 25 YEARS AGO July 1, mt The Roseburg Post Office today moved from second class to a first class office. Little change in the service was expected due to the classification, however. In the event funds are secured to keep the available heavy ma chinery in use, the North Ump- qua road will be graded to provide a connection between Rosehurg and Diamond Lake by (he fall of Wilbur residents, by a vote of 62 to 23, are determined to main tain their high school. A proposal to transport Wilbur high school students to Roseburg was over whelmingly defeated at a recent district meeting. 10 YEARS AGO July 1, 1953 The Douglas County Historical aociety has taken another step for ward as articles of incorporation were completed and drawn up for suDmission to the Oregon Histori cal Society and a board of direct ors elected. it was announced today that a contract for a $385,000 bridge over the South Umpqua River on the pacific Highway relocation in Rose burg will probably be let some time after Nov. 1. WASHINGTON WINDOW U.S. Government Racks Up Another Deficit During '63 By LYLE C. WILSON : including fiscal '63. His program United Press International I projects Treasury deficits through . . . r: I s)fur it i- tl... The average man and his fam- "' ". " "".",.. iiv have a oersonal stake in a re port the U. S. Treasury wm mase in a couDle of days to the Amer ican people. The Treasury will re port that the" government has racked up anoiner aeiicn ior m cal year 1963. Fiscal "63 ended at midnight Sunday. This will be the 27th federal deficit since 1930. The personal stake of the average man is that these deficits have contributed to the larceny of bis savings, bis in surance, his money in pocket by a process known as currency in flation. The average maa's dollar which was worth 100 cents in pur chasing in 1939, is worth only 45.6 cents today. The average man who obtained a 510.000 life insurance policy in 1939 has today a $4,560 life in surance policy in terms of pur chasing power. In terms of bacon, beans and baby shoes, rent, doc tor's bills or what have you, that $10,000 life insurance policy has depreciated in value since 1939 by $5,440, more than half. The Treasury s deficit record is not merely shameful; it is a di rect and dangerous challenge to the American way of life. The average man and woman does not seem to be aware of what these endless deficits have done and what they will do if they are con tinued. If the victims of this grandest larceny were aware of it, they would rebel at the polls. The politicians of both parties in the White House and the Con gress share responsibilities for these deficits, but not equally. Democratic presidents and Con gress have shown less interest, if any, than have Republicans in prudent management of the na tion's finances. Franklin D. Roose velt's campaign promises to ba lance the federal budget and (o reduce government expenditures lasted on a few weeks into his first term. FDR did not achieve a balanced budget in any year of his White House service. Harry S. Truman came up with three balanced bud gets in his eight years. Two of these were imposed on HST. by the Republican 80th Congress he so deplored. Dwight D. Eisenhower balanced the budget thrice. In fiscal 1959 Ike was embarrassed by the larg est peacetime deficit so far, $12.4 billion. John F. Kennedy is 0 for 3, Treasury deficiU gnaw at dollar values, then the average man is in for more lumps. The two-bit dollar is- not far down the deficit road which the U. S. government has followed since 1930. Pressure groups for spending and politicians who buy votes with the voters' own tax money are mostly responsible for the failure of the U. S. govern ment to live within its income. Citizens have been lulled and gulled with the politicians' story that the big spending is all in the cause of national defense. Balo ney! National defense spending has been reduced by one-third since fiscal 1943 when the United States was in a hot war. But in the same 20-year period, non defense spending has increased five fold from about $8 billion to about $30 billion. Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) re cently cited the hard fact that $17 billion of a $20 billion increase in federal spending since the Ko rean War in 1953 has been for strictly domestic civilian pro grams, projects, purposes and in terests. A great deal of that is tax money the politicians vote to spend back home so that they be re-elected. FIRE DAMAGE IS NIL The Roseburg Fire Department was called out at 4:58 a.m. Satur day when a sawdust hopper in the furnace in the office of the Rose burg Lumber Co. shops on NE Dia mond Lake Boulevard began smok ing. There was no damage reported. DON'T BE DEAF!! YOUMIGH1 GET HELP! H. A. Kirklond BELTONE Consultant Csftified Hearini Aid Alidiologist : Oregon Registered Dealer Co. 161 FREE Heating Tost in Your Horn. PH. OS 9-5024 Mon. thru Sot. . nepsiis tnd Batteries for ALL Makes IF HEARING IS YOUR PROBLEM 6EU0HE MAY BE YOUR ANSWER P. P. Box 441 Winston, Oregon J f7?yf VELVETY IATEX jj kJOIIJtjlvVAlL PAINT ! 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